homelessness?
Q. i am being evicted out of my house through no fault of my family, its cos my hubby aint in the army no more, i have filled in homeless forms and they have said to go to our neighbourhood office on eviction day and we will be placed in temporary accomodation, what is this, considering i have 2 dogs a cat and a child? and our stuff is going into storage paid by the council, how long will it take til we get a perm address and have my stuff back? my hubby is working but he is only working part time due to medical problems... hence why he isnt in the army
Asked by charley - Tue May 1 09:14:15 2007 - - 14 Answers - 0 Comments

A. You ought to be given emergency accomodation. Why did your husband not make enquiries with Army before he left. I know there would have been help to find you accommodation and if it is not too late why not go and see someone from the NAAFI who maybe able to come up with an answer. Good luck and all the best.
Answered by Nettie - Tue May 1 09:20:09 2007

What cool ideas are there for presenting a homelessness documentary?
Q. We are having a homelessness awareness week, and we have a cool documentary, but we are looking for some cool ideas on how to present the documentary (setting, time of day, etc.).
Asked by Billy the Kid - Mon Feb 15 20:44:37 2010 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The worst times of day are the mornings when people in the shelters have to leave for the day and the nights when it can get very hairy out there. Look up the following people on the internet and get something from their experiences: Sister Mary Scullion Cheryl Honkala Sister Mary has been responsible for an entire city changing its policy toward homelessness and Cheryl was a homeless woman who is now the director of a program to prevent and alleviate homelessness.
Answered by Milton - Mon Feb 15 20:48:57 2010

How are we affected by poverty and homelessness?
Q. How are we, middle class-high class people, affected by the people suffering of poverty and homelessness? whoever writes the most wins!!!
Asked by Elisa M - Tue Jan 27 17:18:31 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The money we pay in taxes supports social programs like welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, etc. An increase in poverty, in other words a higher need for these social programs, means taxpayers will have to pay more to cover the costs. There is a whole lot more, but that's the basic gist of it from a financial standpoint.
Answered by Jeremy - Tue Jan 27 17:25:32 2009

A good question to ask when writing a persuasive essay on Homelessness?
Q. I have been told to write a persuasive essay on homelessness and cannot think of a good narrow question to base my essay on. Was thinking of "Should homelessness be criminalized" or "Should homelessness be illegal" ? Help please
Asked by g - Sat Apr 4 23:29:24 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. How about "Should the Government provide healthcare for the homeless?" Make sure that whatever question you decide on, you (personally) have a clear answer/opinion on it. If you are wishy-washy on your answer to your own question, you will have a hard time being persuasive.
Answered by Anon. - Sat Apr 4 23:35:23 2009

How can I find entry level housing and homelessness jobs?
Q. I recently graduated with a degree in sociology and would gladly take any job to do with social work, but would prefer a job that deals with housing and homelessness. EVERY listing I've found is looking for people with experience and I have no idea how to gain that experience because I can't find any entry level jobs.
Asked by strmywtrs - Mon Jun 1 02:30:57 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I have seen a lot of housing/homelessness related jobs on idealist, have you tried there? It's mostly non-profits. Also, there are a lot of different ways to work in housing/homelessness. You could be a community activist, organizer, deal with legal aspects, logistics...if you can't get a job right off the bat try to get experience in a similar area but with another focus (youth work, immigration, senior centers). Also look into the state and county government websites for employment, and even federal government although it's more competitive. Finally, don't be afraid to take an position like administrative assistant. It can get you in and allow you to get more insight into the area.
Answered by Minerva - Mon Jun 1 19:18:51 2009

What, do you think, are the major causes of homelessness?
Q. Next month, the 12th annual homelessness marathon will air from Pass Christian, MS, and be covered by radio stations around the country. Natural disasters can obviously displace people. But what are some of the other root causes of homelessness?
Asked by Deirdre H - Wed Jan 21 14:08:11 2009 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments

A. 1. financially disabled 2. broken/shattered relationships 3. natural disaster 4. and now this recession
Answered by Ayanna - Wed Jan 21 14:12:16 2009

Can you find me an article on homelessness which includes a graph?
Q. Can you find me an article on homelessness which includes a graph? I really need an article with a graph on a simple global issue that I can write a good journal on. Please help!
Asked by Boom Kaboom! - Wed Oct 17 22:47:26 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

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Answered by laney - Wed Oct 17 22:56:00 2007

How can Homelessness effect everybody everyday?
Q. I'm doing a school project on homelessness and how could people be sufering from it everyday? How can this matter be solved? help help please i need some ANSWERS!
Asked by Jess.Woods - Wed Jan 21 09:15:13 2009 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Do homeless people have broadband or dial-up internet services?
Answered by Ned The Pie Man - Wed Jan 21 09:22:34 2009

What issues of homelessness would most interest sociologists? ?
Q. What issues of homelessness would most interest sociologists? How would a sociologist's views on the issue differ from an anthropologist, an economist, a psychologist, and a historian?
Asked by j-ism - Wed Sep 17 09:16:07 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Homelessness from a sociological standpoint would involve looking at the homeless person's family structure (their support system or lack of it). Also, the relationships among homeless people as a population (their social network and the benefits/drawbacks of having one). They might study the systems that are supposed to help homeless people (the Salvation Army, etc) to see if they are effective. I could only guess about Anthropology. Historians might look at the circumstances which lead to homelessness as a social problem, i.e. the industrial revolution. Psychologists would be more interested in how homelessness, when viewed as an event in a person's life, would affect their psyche. It is interesting to note that a large percentage of… [cont.]
Answered by mostlyknowledgeable - Wed Sep 17 09:52:31 2008

Devised piece based on the homelessness how would you do that?
Q. Just want to hear some raical ideas. I mean I want to make the piece different than just a straight forward play. Please help with some ideas to inspire me. Play around with the word homelessness sorry missed typed i meant radical not racial! :S I would like something different. SORRY
Asked by Terry Eli. - Tue Sep 23 13:34:36 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I'm homeless and penniless by my own deliberate choice. I gave up being a slave to wages years ago, and drastically decreased my needs, and now I'm much more satisfied with my life than I was when I had money and a home. It's a lot easier for me, having no familial responsibilities, than it would be for most people. The people around me are more honest, not putting on false fronts to impress others. I have time to read and learn, and time to enjoy my friends. My schedule is my own, not that of people I neither know nor care about. I mean what I said about being penniless - I never panhandle, I get nothing at all from the government or any other sources, and I never ask anyone for anything. It gives me freedom, though there are a myriad… [cont.]
Answered by wleef2002 - Tue Sep 23 21:19:06 2008

Will Obama fight homelessness by making homes mandatory, and fining people who don't have homes?
Q. This approach worked so well in MA to reduce the number of people who don't have health insurance. They made health insurance mandatory, and if people didn't buy it, the state made them pay a fine equal to the cost of insurance. Why not take the same approach to joblessness or homelessness? Why not reduce homelessness by making homes mandatory, and if people don't get a home, make them pay a fine equal to the cost of a home? Wouldn't that make just as much sense? Why wouldn't that be just as effective for fighting homelessness?
Asked by gws35 - Tue Jan 26 18:27:00 2010 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I hear Canada will find it's citizen a home if they do not have one. But of course you don't have a choice where you live (and why should you) so a lot of good people are mixed in with low scum criminals and there is no segregation, in fact they make sure there isn't.
Answered by Whitney_A_Hitler - Tue Jan 26 18:40:45 2010

What happens at the homelessness fundraisers where you sleep in a refrigerator box?
Q. I am curious. NHS at our school wants to set one up, but I'm not sure how they're run. Do you have any information I could find online? Or any experience from participating in one yourself? The thing is, I'm the one trying to set it up. I understand there are rules and such that I need to establish, but I'm looking more for what kind of activities go on. Guest speakers? Music? I don't know if it should be a fun event or a solemn one...
Asked by Rachel - Wed Sep 26 23:33:12 2007 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Check out www.invisiblechildren.com . It's a totally different cause, however, they did something called the Global Night Commute last year. Basically, everyone came to the rally and first did a march (they walked from one major monument to a park with signs) and then everyone slept in boxes or sleeping bags right on the ground. No mattress pads, no tents, etc. It poured rain in a few of the cities during the event and everyone still stayed all night long because this is what really happens! Some people just can't go inside when it starts to rain like we can. You should try to get some speakers for your event. There are probably soup kitchens, anti-homelessness coalitions, shelters, etc, that would love to send a speaker out for you.… [cont.]
Answered by tink - Thu Sep 27 09:52:14 2007

How do you feel about homelessness in America? Who really does care, and what can we do?
Q. I'm doing a project on the prevention of homelessness in America. I would like to know- to whom does homelessness in America matter? What ideas do you have for a campaign for a promotion to prevent the actual issue in America? Please...Need your help!!!
Asked by BabiDoll - Fri Nov 2 10:53:17 2007 - - 3 Answers - 1 Comments

A. Homelessness matters to all. I was not raised to know anyone homeless or to expect it to happen to me but it did. And unlike what most people think I have a job. I am female and I live in a shelter for women. I have lived there for seven years and what I have seen!!! Blows my mind. 1. Most women who become homeless were sexual victims at one point in their life. 2. This is obvious to all the women in the shelter: lack of support is actually the #1 reason for women becoming homeless. Either family support is unable due to them (the family) being financially, mentally, or medically unstable or else outright cruel, like domestic violence. 3. Mental illness does not seem in my opinion to play as large a part in homelessness for… [cont.]
Answered by anonymous - Sat Nov 3 19:56:28 2007

What are your takes on homelessness and the poverty levels in America?
Q. How do you feel about homeless people and those living in poverty? Do you feel they were put in that place or put themselves in that place? Personally, I think it is ridiculous because there is no excuse to live like that with the opportunities that are given to them.
Asked by deep::love::emotion - Tue Jun 26 03:32:12 2007 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments

A. This question does not have a simple answer. I worked in welfare and Child Protective Services for 8 years and I learned a lot. The problem with poverty is it is a cycle. Many of the people on our system today are there because that is all they know. Their parents were poor and they did not break the barrier to get out of it. I think our education system has so much to do with it. I have taught in at-risk areas and the communities really don't help or support schools that really need it the most. Most successful people do as much as they can to separate themselves and their families from the ugliness of the world. I guess it surprises me the most because I live in a city that is the Bible Belt of Texas. The church is the… [cont.]
Answered by unknown - Tue Jun 26 08:09:48 2007

How did homelessness arise in our society?
Q. I need to write one paragraph about this question. Please note that I am from Australia, so it needs to remain at a national level. I just need some points in the right direction!
Asked by Lily A - Sat May 10 07:59:09 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

how can i start my research paper on homelessness?
Q. I just an idea to like of how to start the paper out. intro paragraph.
Asked by hotblonde - Sun Apr 26 10:40:49 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Homeless people are plagues and should be eradicated from existence.
Answered by Rob - Sun Apr 26 11:07:00 2009

How do you explain homelessness in the rich Western world?
Q. Have you noticed the ever growing prenomenon of homlessness in America in the last few decades? Whos fault it is? -- Individuals' (eg. mental sicknes, etc.) or societal neglect and lack of compation or fostering false expectations? Hows the homelessnes in other rich countries like Germany and Japan?I am not interested in explaining a poverty driven homelessnes, like in India.
Asked by oracle - Thu Aug 10 21:00:12 2006 - - 9 Answers - 1 Comments

A. Hmmm. The rich western world? I suppose the U.S. is rich compared to most 3rd world countries. I don't have those statistics. As an American who has been homeless, I can tell you that many of our homeless definately do have mental disorders & many have physical disorders that make them harder to house & care for than others. Many families are homeless & children are living in abandoned cars because the shelters are not safe for them. The shelters do feed people, but they are becoming over populated with perverts & sickos who prey on single women & children. Our government grants the helping hand agencies massive amounts of money & this money is being diverted & misused by con artists who have weaseled their way into jobs within these… [cont.]
Answered by Me-She - Thu Aug 10 21:21:22 2006

In the movie Tokyo Godfathers the main characters are homeless. What is homelessness like in Japan now?
Q. Has the situation changed from when the movie was made? Are there still "living areas" for the homeless in Japan like the movie shows? I need to write a paper on a theme of the movie, and I'd like to do it about homelessness if possible.
Asked by Katara - Sat Feb 14 14:43:59 2009 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The movie somehow reflects the reality. BUT,, The true situation of homelessness in Japan is a bit different. These days, young homeless people do not sleep on street or park as some movie or news say. They go to internet cafes and sleep there. It's not free. But very cheap. So they manage to take shower and some meal there. These people are called "Internet cafe refugees" and raising concerns among Japanese society. This Internet cafe refugees have come to surface in the last few years. So this is the change which have taken place since the movie.
Answered by thecheapest902 - Sat Feb 14 16:58:55 2009

How can one person help drive homelessness into extinction?
Q. 1) Be real 2) Be honest 3) Be ethical Remember...it could be anyone of us in these shoes. I belong to a nonprofit that helps find organizations to make at least one hot meal a day for the homeless in my city, but am I doing all I can do? Do any of us do all we can to help? There is no right or wrong answer. I am looking to see if any other person would have said: By working together, one by one; we all can make the difference!
Asked by Cathy H - Thu Dec 6 13:06:11 2007 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments

A. One person cannot take care of a hungry world. What we can do is make the world more aware of this. ..especially in our USA where stereotyping is alive and well. The average homeless person is either mentally ill with no where to go, addicted to drugs or alcohol with no means for treatment, those whohave lost jobs and homes, which includes children and whole families and single parent families and the ages of the homeless are getting younger each day. Any of us could end up in their situation. Making people aware of the truth and organizing fundraisers, going among the homeless and living with them for a week, and doing all you can do and getting others involved is a good start. It is also good to let your local , state and federal… [cont.]
Answered by agnes - Thu Dec 6 14:40:11 2007

What do you think of the idea of kindness meters for homelessness?
Q. It's a pilot project that has been introduced in the city of Ottawa. Municipal authorities have refurbished parking meters and are taking donations to redistribute to charities that work with the homeless. The idea is to eliminate the need for pandhandling. Is this a good idea? Why? Why not?
Asked by Opinionatedkitten - Thu Jan 3 14:02:52 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. As long as all the money goes to a charity that actually uses the money to help those people then yes it is .Of course I think that any " tickets " given out should carry instead of a fine the parties name published in the local paper instead !
Answered by Lizard of Ahaz soon again - Thu Jan 3 14:17:08 2008